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  • Visible Hand
    Internet taxes are about more than money. They're about who knows who buys what.
    Industry Standard, Aug 13, 2001
  • The Limits Of Credibility
    Microsoft got beat fair and square. To maintain credibility with regulators - and customers - it needs to realize that fact, fast.
    Industry Standard, July 23, 2001
  • Artful Dodges
    Record execs are crying for the rights of artists. But the real issue is innovation, not pay.
    Industry Standard, June 11, 2001
  • Copyright Thugs
    The SDMI, the RIAA and industry lawyers better get something straight: preventing piracy doesn't mean you can punish researchers.
    Industry Standard, May 7, 2001
  • Just Compensation
    Congress should help artists get paid without delivering the Internet into the hands of the big labels.
    Industry Standard, April 9 2001
  • Adobe in Wonderland
    In its Alice e-book, the bottle marked "Drink Me" increases public freedoms but the cake marked "Eat Me" strengthens control over content. Adobe's efforts to find the right balance are laudable.
    Industry Standard, March 19, 2001
  • The Rules of Politics
    In a strange twist, the FTC shines as the Supreme Court stumbles.
    Industry Standard, January 15, 2001
  • The Rules of Law
    Consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds. It is also a basic requirement of prosperity.
    Industry Standard, December 4, 2000
  • Government Property
    bureaucrats in Washington don't just break monopolies. They also make them.
    Industry Standard, October 30, 2000
  • Copyrights Rule
    Courts are racing to enjoin alleged violators of copyright law, taking no account of the effects on the development of the Internet.
    Industry Standard, October 2, 2000
  • Behind the Curtain
    It's the other side of the privacy debate: Allowing consumers to find out as much about business and government as they know about us.
    Industry Standard, September 4, 2000
  • Right Back at Ya
    The question remains: What were the principles behind Bill Gates' position on the Justice Department's case against Microsoft?
    Industry Standard, July 24, 2000
  • The Limits of Copyright
    Our country's founders put certain intellectual property rights into the Constitution. But they weren't downloading software.
    Industry Standard, June 19, 2000
  • A Letter to Bill
    The pivotal question in the Microsoft case is the principle of the right to innovate. What principles will Bill defend?
    Industry Standard, June 5, 2000
  • In Search of Skeptics
    We need to be willing to think about the effects of regulation on the process of innovation.
    Industry Standard, April 17, 2000
  • Battling Censorware
    Copyright law is limited by the Constitution. But when there are conflicts with the First Amendment, some courts lean the other way.
    Industry Standard, April 3, 2000
  • Cyberspace Prosecutor
    Before the courts race to join the content control freaks' chorus, they should pause to consider our national tradition.
    Industry Standard, February 21, 2000
  • Patent Problems
    Every method of doing business in cyberspace by definition is instantiated in technology - code. Thus, every method becomes subject to a patent.
    Industry Standard, January 21, 2000
  • The Net, Version 2000
    Through code or through contract, business seeks to change the design of cyberspace to make it more commerce-friendly.
    Industry Standard, December, 27 1999
  • The Code of Cyberspace
    Congress should help artists get paid without delivering the Internet. The Internet will not cause the "withering away of the state." If we're not careful, government could instead wither the Net.
    Industry Standard, December 6, 1999
  • G-Rated Browsers
    Industry Standard, December 3, 1999
  • Architecting Innovation
    The key to the Net's extraordinary innovation is that it doesn't allow a term like "allow."
    Industry Standard, November 14, 1999
  • Filtering Content
    In this world where business regulates instead of government, what do we do when business goes too far?
    Industry Standard, October, 1999
  • Thinking Different(ly)
    Our national identity is tied to the ideals of the First Amendment. And yet we treat it as obvious that in corporate space, the Bolsheviks rule.
    Industry Standard, September, 1999
  • The Cable Debate, Pt II
    Competition should be the policy.
    Industry Standard, July, 1999
  • Broadband Blackmail
    Should someone pick your ISP for you? Code is thus limiting competition. The network is being designed to restrict ISP choice, and thereby lock broadband customers to the cable operator's local broadband network.
    Industry Standard, June, 1999
  • Coding Privacy
    After years of inaction, Congress is finally coming to see that privacy on the Internet won't take care of itself. The mystery isn't that self-regulation failed; the mystery is why anyone thought it would succeed.
    Industry Standard, May, 1999
  • The Problem with Patents
    A patent is a form of regulation. It is a government-granted monopoly - an exclusive right backed by the power of the state. This monopoly is granted by a bureaucrat - a well-meaning, hardworking bureaucrat no doubt, but a bureaucrat nonetheless.
    Industry Standard, April 23, 1999
  • The Code is the Law
    The single most significant change in the politics of cyberspace is the coming of age of this simple idea: The code is law. The architectures of cyberspace are as important as the law in defining and defeating the liberties of the Net.
    Industry Standard, April 9, 1999
  • Memo to the Leviathan
    Sorry I missed your call. You sounded awful. You can't let this cyberspace stuff get you down.
    Industry Standard, March 5, 1999
  • Pain in the OS
    A growing number of Linux users have tried to return their copy of Windows and receive the promised refund.
    Industry Standard, February 5, 1999
  • The Spam Wars
    The looming conflict is a spam war. A spam war is not the battle to clear our inboxes of uninvited junk. A spam war is the battle that will be fought as spam vigilantes flex their muscles and ISPs resist.
    Industry Standard, December 31, 1998
  • Sign It and Weep
    Earlier this month, the drafting committee for an obscure but enormously important proposed law known as Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code met to address growing opposition to its work.
    Industry Standard, November 20, 1998
  • Digital Dog Tags
    If the government wants to regulate your behavior - make you pay taxes, say, or deny you the right to buy cigarettes - it needs to know who you are.
    Industry Standard, October 16, 1998
  • A Bad Turn for Net Governance
    We're coming to the end of our first experiment with "stakeholder government" in cyberspace - and the results are not promising.
    Industry Standard, September 18, 1998

 

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